[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#437801: vmware-package: cannot connect sound on vmware-player, complains about /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site not found

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:33:23PM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> Hm, I was just playing around with sound in a windows VMware guest in
> Workstation 6 the other day and it worked fine.  I have the following
> snd modules loaded:
> 
> edmonds at chase{0}:~$ lsmod | grep snd
> snd_pcm_oss            48288  0 
> snd_mixer_oss          21376  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_emu10k1           142048  1 
> snd_rawmidi            30624  1 snd_emu10k1
> firmware_class         15360  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_ac97_codec        117464  1 snd_emu10k1
> ac97_bus                7168  1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm                89992  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
> snd_seq_device         12820  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
> snd_timer              28424  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc         14608  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem            9600  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_hwdep              14728  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd                    65896  11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
> soundcore              13088  1 snd

$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0           24988  5
snd_intel8x0m          12556  6
snd_ac97_codec         76576  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_pcm_oss            35872  0
snd_mixer_oss          13312  1 snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus                1408  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                55560  8 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              16772  3 snd_pcm
snd                    34788  23 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               4576  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          6664  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm

I see that snd_pcm_oss seems to be unused in both instances.

> (particularly, snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss seem to be what provide
> the /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer OSS interface.)

Both modules are loaded here. Do you take any measures to have libaoss
pre-loaded, or does it work right out of the box for you?

Greetings
Marc

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